how to make wine?

Question

please nice and simple resipe and what kind of yeast you need?
would regular yeast work?
is it more alcoholic when it is ferments longer?

Answer 1

I made wine from Welch's Frozen Grape Juice when I was in high school ::
3 cans concentrated grape juice
9 cans water
1 packet bread yeast
Mix all together and 'leave set' about a week until active fermentation starts and finishes. (It smells like wine is being made so be careful!) Pour off everything except the bottom 'lees' into jugs and put a balloon over the top to keep out oxygen. When the balloon bursts or in about two weeks drink or as long as you can wait, DRINK, cause you got wine, dude!

Answer 2

Anything with sugar will ferment: grapes, peaches, raspberries, whatever. Just crush it up and get the juice out, toss in yeast and wait. If it were only that simple.
As far as yeasts go there are literally thousands to choose from. Each have pluses and minuses but all basically do the same thing by anaerobically converting sugar to ethyl alcohol. Longer fermentations do not mean higher alcohol. They may just be slower due to the yeast strain, available nutrients and temperature. You must feed yeast but not too much. Overfeeding can cause the yeasts to expel urea which leads to off flavors. More sugar means more alcohol but most yeasts die when the alcohol toxicity reaches a certain point. Special yeasts are needed to get higher alcohols. Most die when the abv reaches between 12-15%.
Most simple recipes are designed to yield very basic, usually sweet wine. You're best off to just b a wine kit locally or through the mail. Some of the guesswork has been taken out. Serious wine making is science and art and very difficult to master. Even the Yellowtails of the world have more science and technology behind them than you'll ever be able to employ. With the sea of great wines well under $10 its hard to justify the time and expense of doing it yourself and expecting anything close to the same quality.

Answer 3

Well simply get a book from the library, bookstore, or home beer & wine shop. Many of these shops will have small packets to teach the basics of beer & wine making.
Wine: 1. Crush grapes
2. Ferment with a cultured yeast
3. settle/age perhaps in oak
4. bottle and age
That is nice and simple but it is really much more invovled. It is nice to make your own to drink, gifts, etc. But it is also true good quality wines are available cheap. I say do both and enjoy.

To some extent the yeast will produce more alcohol over time but this is limited. Yeast have genetic limits to the % of alcohol they can produce but then there are many many to choose from. Most yeast used to produce wine ferments in a range of 12-15% with about 13% being a common target for the wine maker. There are reasons for this but they are not so "nice and simple."

Answer 4

Five gallons of any cheap juice like apple, apple/cranberry, grape. I used to just go to Aldis and get 10 half gallons of apple juice for about 12 bucks. Then you also need about 5 pounds of sugar to start with.

I would order actual wine yeast since baking least will only yield about 3 percent alcohol. Wine yeast can be purchased and mailed to you for less than 3 dollars but it is only for one batch and follow direction on the package perfectly.

You have to have a siphon hose about 3 feet long handy.A bucket that will hold 6 gallons, (plastic food grade. All of these items need to be sterilized ( hose, bucket, lid for bucket and this little thing called a bubbler and a long spoon to stir with)

Put 5 gallons juice in bucket, add in plain sugar and stir it until it is dissolved. Follow direction on yeast packet. Usually will say to mix yeast in 2 ounces of warm water. By warm it means about 100 degrees. Too hot will kill the yeast, to cold will not be warm enough to start it activating. Mix the yeasty water with your wine and hopefully, your mix will be about 70 to 75 degrees. Leave this uncovered or just a cheese cloth over it for a week to 10 days.

Siphon off the wine leaving behind the must or mud in the bottom. ( This means you need another 6 gallon container also sterilized.) Now you cant put the lid tightly on the bucket and insert the bubbler. I'll give you website for some of this stuff.

Wait three to four weeks, siphon again leaving behind mud. You'll have wine at this point but it will be "dry" and possibly taste "hot" of alcohol. Then you add more sugar to taste and let it sit another week or two to make sure it doesnt referment. Then siphon it into the half gallon jugs you saved from the start.

Or, you can go to this website and start making some great wine in a months time. Making the cheap stuff costs about 2 bucks for a half gallon. Making good wine from this site will cost about $3.50 per bottle ( fifth) but it will be as good as any 10-25 dollar bottle bought at a store.

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Answer 5

I use 24 bottles of grape juice
12 bottles of water
2kg sugar dissolved in some of the water
one tea spoon of ordinary yeast to grow in the sugar water first.
Mix all in a plastic container seal it with alu foil and put the lid on top.
Than forget it for about 4 weeks. The wine is ready when you can see the bottom of the container.
Take a small hose and filter it into empty bottles and let it rest for a few days.
If you leave it too long, you will have vinegar.
Cheers

Answer 6

I just "inherited" an old cookbook that belonged to my grandmother that was full of recipes from the contributors' grandmothers--this was my favorite that really stuck out in my mind--how old does this sound:

BLACKBERRY WINE

Wash berries and squeeze ou all juice. Boil five minutes or more. Skim well. Put three pounds of sugar to a gallon of juice and keep in jug, well plugged, until October and then bottle. This wine goes well on fruit cake, is excellent for the toasting and for many illnesses. It will promote a good appetite, and induce a good night's sleep.

Mrs. J.M. Paget


THAT'S IT!!! Crazy, huh? I might try it one day...If I can figure out the time table!

Answer 7

Yeast is for beer, not wine.

Answer 8

The very first step is to wash your feet and put on clean white sox. Then hop to it!

Answer 9

real easy just toss in a few pieces of bread,
jail house hootch

Answer 10

There are recipes on-line all over the place.